![Transcription Center logo](/themes/custom/tc_theme/assets/image/logo.png)
This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.
16 [[double underlined]] Silas Stearns [[/double underlined]] , [[underlined]], Pensacola , Florida [[/underlined]]. [[red underlined]] Accession [[/red underlined]] 12247; [[red underlined]] Catalogue [[/red underlined]] 31891-31939. A collection of great value, containing the following among many other species: 1. [[underlined]]Stenotomus caprinus [[/underlined]] Bean ( young), the singular "Goat's-head Porgy" recently discovered at Pensacola by Mr. Stearns. 2. [[underlined]] Opisthognathus scaphiurus [[/underlined]] Goode & Bean. 3. [[underlined]] Echeneis albescens [[/underlined]] Temm & Schleg., now for the first time recorded in our waters. 4. [[underlined]] Phycis floridanus [[/underlined]] Bean & Dresel, a manuscript species, of which a brief diagnosis has been prepared for publication in Proc. Biological Society of Washington, volume II. 5. [[underlined]] Coryphæna equisetis [[/underlined]] L. (? or [[underlined]] hippurus [[/underlined]] L.), 13 examples of rather small size. 6. [[underlined]] Aprion ariommus [[/underlined]] Jor. & Gilb., a species recently described in Proc. Nat. Mus. for 1883, pp 142-143.